Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122173 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IHS Economics Series No. 316
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
We provide a model of dynamic duopoly in which firms face financial constraints and disappear when they are unable to fulfill them. We show that, in some cases, Cournot outputs are no longer supported in equilibrium, because if these outputs were set, a firm may have incentives to ruin the other. In these cases, standard grim-trigger strategies in which collusion is sustained by infinite reversion to Cournot outputs cannot be used. We show that there is a stationary Markov equilibrium in mixed strategies where predation occurs with a positive probability. We also obtain a modified "folk theorem". We show that any bankruptcy-free outputs (outputs in which no firm can drive another firm to bankruptcy without becoming bankrupt itself) that attain individually rational profits (reflecting bankruptcy consideration) can be supported by a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium when firms are sufficiently long-sighted.
Subjects: 
Financial Constraints
Bankruptcy
Firm Behavior
Dynamic Games
JEL: 
D2
D4
L1
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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